![]() The Legion of Doom was created for the Challenge of the Super Friends animated TV series as a villainous counterpart to the Justice League. The satellite and Moon base headquarters are equipped with teleporters for those members who cannot fly to it. The centerpiece of the headquarters is a conference table around which the Justice League discusses menaces to deal with. In the JLA comic book which ran from 1997 to 2006, their headquarters was on the Moon and called "the Watchtower". During the brief "Justice League Detroit" era, they were headquartered in a repurposed bomb shelter in Detroit. In the Super Friends cartoons which ran from 1973 to 1985, they operated out of the "Hall of Justice" located in Washington, D.C. In Justice League of America #78 (1970), they moved to a satellite. In the 1960s, their headquarters was secretly in a hollowed-out mountain outside the fictional town of Happy Harbor in Rhode Island. The Justice League operates out of a headquarters. While sometimes the League is shown to have a designated chairperson or leader, there is otherwise no hierarchy they are a small band of equals who make major decisions, such as inducting new members, by vote. ![]() The cast is rarely more than a dozen people in size so as to give a reasonable and equal time for each character. Particularly in the early decades of publication, DC Comics was keen for its superheroes to be perceived as law-abiding because children were the main audience. ![]() government or the United Nations so as to receive their sanction. The Justice League is an independent group, although it usually accepts some constraints from the U.S. This was done to emulate the model of Marvel Comics' X-Men comic books, whose stories were more character-driven and which favored more obscure or even new characters. The advantage of this was that lesser-known characters are not burdened by convoluted continuities, which gives writers more creative flexibility to write character-driven stories. DC Comics has in several periods deviated from this formula, most notably in the late 1980s and early 1990s with books such as Justice League International, which deliberately featured a cast of lesser-known characters. Most versions of the Justice League feature a select cast of highly popular characters from the DC Comics portfolio, such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, to attract readers with their star power and they often co-feature a few lesser-known characters who benefit from exposure, such as Cyborg or Black Canary. This is in contrast to teams such as the X-Men or the Fantastic Four, who normally operate as a team and for whom the team is central to their identity. The members of the Justice League are heroes who normally operate independently but who occasionally team up to tackle especially formidable villains. Main article: List of Justice League members īeyond comic books, the Justice League has been adapted to a number of television shows, films, and video games included.įictional overview Members The Justice League was created to boost the profiles and sales of said characters through cross-promotion and helped develop the DC Universe as a shared universe, as it is through teams like the Justice League that the setting's characters regularly interact with each other. The cast of the Justice League usually features a few highly popular characters who have their own solo books, such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman alongside a number of lesser-known characters who benefit from exposure. This is in contrast to certain other superhero teams such as the X-Men, whose characters were created specifically to be part of the team, with the team being central to their identity. Diegetically, these superheroes usually operate independently but occasionally assemble as a team to tackle especially formidable villains. The Justice League is an all-star ensemble cast of established superhero characters from DC Comics' portfolio. The team was conceived by writer Gardner Fox as a revival of the Justice Society of America, a similar team from DC Comics from the 1940s which had been pulled out of print due to a decline in sales. The team first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #28 (March 1960). The Justice League is a team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The classic cast of the Justice League, from left to right: Green Lantern, the Flash, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter, art by Alex Ross
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